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15.The Self-Strengthening Movements
a. Was an attempt by the Qing elites to expand the military to
attack British
forces
b. Was an attempt to blend Chinese cultural traditions with western
technology
c. Is the term used to describe the development of martial arts in
China
d. Was a movement to develop Chinese technologies without western
influence
e. Was a failed rebellion in Northern China

16. The Boxer Rebellion was all of the following except
a. An anti-foreigner movement
b. Supported by the Empress Cixi
c. Led by a former boxer turned missionary
d. Led by people who believed martial arts made them
invulnerable
e. Crushed by a coalition force from Europe and Asia

17.Rebellion against the Tokugawa began because
a. The Japanese people resented the government�s capitulation to
westerners
b. The last Tokugawa leader died without an heir, causing civil
wars
c. The Emperor allied with western forces to attack the
Tokugawa
d. The British conquered the region and established a protectorate
over Japan
e. The United States invaded and established a U.S. colony in
Japan.

18.The Meiji
a. Witnessed the end of military rule
b. Restored the Emperor
c. Was run by advisors who advocated adopting western
technologies
d. Abolished the old social order
e. All of the above

20. Which statement best expresses the motive for 19th-century
European imperialism?
a. The desire to learn and experience new cultures
b. European leaders believed imperialism was an effective method of
reducing the number of wars.
c. European nations renounced imperialism in the 19th century
d. Imperialism would benefit the economies of the colonial
powers.
e. None of the above

21. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Europeans improved roads
and bridges and built railroads in their colonies primarily
to
a. provide jobs for the colonists
b. obtain raw materials needed for industrialization
c. impress the colonists with their technological knowledge
d. help the native people reach their sacred religious sites
e. all of the above

22. �, you, Africa, suffered like a beast
Your ashes strewn to the wind that roams the desert,
Your tyrants built the lustrous, magic temples
To preserve your soul, preserve your suffering.
Barbaric right of fist and the white right to whip,
You had the right to die, you could also weep.
--Patrice Lumumba, �Dawn in the Heart of Africa�
This African poem is discussing the evils of
a. imperialism
b. communism
c. nationalism
d. regionalism
e. none of the above

23. The Sepoy Rebellion in India and the Boxer Rebellion in China
were similar in that both were
a. attempts to improve foreign trade
b. nonviolent resistance efforts
c. revolts against foreign influence
d. revolutions against traditional monarchs
e. they are not actually similar at all

24. Throughout the 1800�s, an increased need for both raw materials
and new markets for manufactured goods led various European nations
to pursue policies of
a. imperialism
b. socialism
c. isolationism
d. communism
e. syncretism

25. �Take up the White Man�s burden�
Send forth the best ye breed
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives� need;
To wait, in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild�
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.�
--Rudyard Kipling, �The White Man�s Burden�
The phrase �White Man�s burden� in this excerpt refers to the
a. negative attitude of Europeans toward peoples of the non-Western
world
b. advantages Europeans would gain by colonizing Africa, Asia, and
Latin America
c. positive role of the Roman Catholic Church in Africa and
Asia
d. challenges non-Europeans faced when trading with the
Europeans
e. none of the above